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Sympathy

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. – Catharine Esther Beecher

Pity cost nothing and aint worth nothing. – Josh Billings

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. – Albert Camus

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. – Randolph Churchill

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. – Charles Caleb Colton

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. – Marquis De Sade

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. – Princess of Wales Diana

Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. – John Galsworthy

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. – Johann von Goethe